A. Manette Ansay





A. Manette Ansay

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in Lapeer, Michigan, The United States
January 01, 1964

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A. Manette Ansay grew up in Wisconsin among 67 cousins and over 200 second cousins. She is the author of six novels, including Good Things I Wish You (July, 2009), Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club Selection, and Midnight Champagne, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as a short story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says, and a memoir, Limbo. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Nelson Algren Prize, and two Great Lakes Book Awards. She lives with her daughter in Florida, where she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Miami.


Average rating: 3.27 · 15,939 ratings · 1,008 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
Vinegar Hill
3.24 of 5 stars 3.24 avg rating — 13,177 ratings — published 1980 — 28 editions
Blue Water
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 994 ratings14 editions
Midnight Champagne
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 647 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions
Good Things I Wish You
3.06 of 5 stars 3.06 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
Sister
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions
River Angel: A Novel
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 225 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
Limbo: A Memoir
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 214 ratings8 editions
Read This and Tell Me What ...
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions
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“Infatuation is the inciting incident. Maybe it goes somewhere, maybe it doesn't, but you can't have a story without it. Love is the story itself, the thing we carry with us after the mountains are gone.”
A. Manette Ansay, Good Things I Wish You

“Each piano is unique. Each feels different beneath your hand and yields a new geography of sound. Each room or hall accepts that sound in a completely different way, and if, within that room or hall, the piano is moved, the sound will change, as it will if the hall is full of people in thick winter coats, or half full of people in light summer dresses. You must adjust your touch, your tone, your range; you must LISTEN, for even the most familiar passages can become unfamiliar, challenging, strange.”
A. Manette Ansay, Limbo: A Memoir

“You know the one about the old man whose grandson is getting married? Just before the wedding, he calls the boy in for a chat. “My child,” he says, “I want you to know that all marriages go through phases. At first, you and you wife will make love all the time. But then, as the children come along, you will find that you are having sex less and less. And by the time they are grown and gone, you’ll be just like your grandmother and me. All you’ll ever have is oral sex. I just wanted you to know how things will go.” The boy looks at him, incredulous. “You and Grandma have oral sex?” “Every single night,” the old man says, “and it’s a perfectly natural thing. She goes into her bedroom and calls, ‘Fuck you!’ And I go into my bedroom and call back to her, ‘No, fuck you!”
A. Manette Ansay, Good Things I Wish You

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